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Board contains ribbons, medals, and buttons honouring Reuban Brainin's participation in various conventions, groups, and press organizations, including Zionist Organization of America Conventions, Young Judea conventions, and various American Jewish Congress events. City of origin of board identified as New York.

File contains a book published by Brigham Young University on the family history of David and Elizabeth "Bessie" Komiensky (Cummings). It includes chronologies, pedigree groups/family trees, transcripts of interviews with Nathan Cummings, photos, and maps.

Consists of documentation from Loge l'Alliance B'nai B'rith No. 2163 as well as theatrical programmes and ephemera from the Communaute Israelite Aschkenazi du Caire. Many documents from both the Loge l'Alliance B'nai Brith and the Communaute Israelite Aschkenazi du Caire mention Henri and Simon Bernard, the latter of which became president of the Loge l'Alliance B'nai Brith in April 1967. Both Henri and Simon appear to have been amateur actors in the Groupement Artistique Juif de Caire.

This fond consists mainly of working documents such as correspondence and financial papers, predominantly from the late 1940s to the 1970s. The documents deals with the advocacy activities of the Jewish Labour Committee such as bringing refugees over to Montreal and later raising money to aid Pakistani refugees. Highlights of the Fonds include correspondence between David Lewis, then secretary of the CCF, his father Moishe Lewis, and Kalman Kaplansky, both labour leaders in Montreal’s Workmen’s Circle and in the Jewish Labour Committee..

Consist of a program listing Henri Simon as mentor at the Loge l'Alliance B'nai Brith, as well as a a flyer for an event by the B'nai Brith Hillel Foundation at McGill University featuring Rabbi Wentworth A. Matthew. Includes flyers for events put on by the Loge l'Alliance B'nai Brith with guests such as Archbishop of Montreal Paul Gregoire, and Rabbi Wilfrid Shuchat.

Taken by J. Goldman